[Watson] is the horse who has been carrying their cart, ... And we're going to have to put our best guys on Redding. We want to try to shut those two down and try to make them run the football.

The question of sanctions against Iran puts the cart before the horse. Sanctions are in no way the best, or the only, way to solve the problem.

In some ways, you?re putting the cart before the horse.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse.

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